A 20-year-old man was arrested after he reportedly tried to walk out of a Kohl’s department store wearing $22 worth of women’s underwear, West Bloomfield police say.

Lt. Tim Diamond said loss prevention officers were keeping an eye on the Sylvan Lake man because he was acting “unusual” around 3 p.m. Wednesday after entering the store at 7200 Orchard Lake Road.

“He was in and out of the men’s dressing room,” said Diamond. “He came out at one point, went into the ladies department and took a couple pair of panties and maybe a couple other men’s items and went back into the men’s dressing room.”

Diamond said the man purchased about $100 worth of merchandise — but not the underwear.

“The (employees) confronted him as he was leaving and said, ‘Hey, we saw you go into the dressing room with these panties. Where are they?’” said Diamond. “He said, ‘Well, I’m wearing them.’”

Diamond said the loss prevention officers made the man go back into the dressing room and take off the women’s underwear he was allegedly trying to steal.

Police are not releasing the man’s name until he is arraigned. He will appear in court on Oct. 2.